Vinayak Gole explores the connectivity to data stored in the Hadoop distributions (Cloudera and Hortonworks) through the discovery component of SAP Lumira 2.0. He shows how you can further transform and visualize data using SAP Lumira’s self-service capabilities demonstrating a full life cycle for Big Data analytics.

Hernan Huwyler goes over the particular requirements for reviewing the user and database access in your SAP system to prepare for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. Controls should be reinforced on user and database rights to access tables with personal information. Documentation, validation, and coordination should also be more comprehensive.

Anurag Barua provides an overview of SAP Data Quality Management software and its capabilities for detecting and correcting incorrect or incomplete and duplicate address data at the point of entry into your SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) system.

In this case study, Greg Robinette and Cory Morewitz discuss the design, configuration, and use of SAP’s unique business partner functionality. This functionality is particularly suited for representing employees’ HR data that is not included in the SAP ERP HCM system. Business partners are also useful for integrating medical providers that do not conform to standard SAP representation.

Joshu Madina explains the process of identifying invalid mitigation assignments for user-level mitigations and role-level mitigations. He also provides you with details regarding extending the validity for expired mitigations and deleting invalid mitigation assignments.

Rehan Zaidi explores various scenarios that can arise and the coding for accessing the employee data from SAP standard and custom infotypes. This task of fetching data on certain selection criteria is an important requirement for SAP developers.

Nikhil More shows how to configure the SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP ERP HCM systems to preserve consistency in employees’ direct-deposit data when it is replicated from Employee Central to SAP ERP HCM.

When CRM is integrated with SAP ERP HCM, creating an employee in HCM is supposed to trigger the creation of a business partner (BP) with an employee role in CRM. However, that doesn’t always happen. Siddhartha Datta Choudhury shows how to generate business partners in employee roles for these missing employees in CRM and assign them to the organizational model.

Praveen Peddibhotla, Anand Agarwal, and Raghurama Gurrala explain how to set up campaign discounts in SAP CRM, ensure that discounts flow to the back-end SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system to be processed with minimal manual intervention, and, in cases in which there are multiple valid campaign codes, that campaign codes are able to be changed after the order is placed.

In this presentation from Exaserv’s Victoria Banks you gain a high-level understanding for how to use SAP NetWeaver Process Integration to achieve a hybrid SAP̅–SuccessFactors solution. Discover the setup that is required from both systems to ensure a successful integration, and learn how this integration results in a sound foundation for running HR processes efficiently.

In this 30-minute webinar recording, author Hillary Bliss of Decision First Technologies walks you through her in-depth report, “An Introduction to SAP Predictive Analysis and How It Integrates with SAP HANA.”